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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The quite amazing Nintendo 3DS

It's been less than 24 hours since Nintendo unveiled its promised 3D handheld and, judging from what we've seen, this could easily be the company's best handheld yet. The 3DS, you see, is backward compatible with the DS and DSi, sports PS2 level graphics, an allegedly jaw dropping 3D display, carts than can hold up to 2GB of data, dual screens, wi-fi, a 3D camera, an second inner camera, an analog stick, a few extra buttons, the now-traditional touch-controls and some interesting sounding motion sensors. Feature-packed, I'm sure you'll agree, and it looks good and highly portable too.

What's more, the number and -probably- quality of promised first and third party games is more than impressive, ranging from the already shown Kid Icarus: Uprising to Street Fighter IV. Other titles announced include: Metal Gear 3DS, Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Pilotwings, Star Fox, Fifa Soccer, Ninja Gaiden, DJ Hero, Resident Evil, Sonic, Contra, Assassin's Creed, The Sims 3, Animal Crossing, Professor Layton, Pro Evolution Soccer, Bomberman and many more, as apparently everyone seems to be supporting the thing.

13 comments:

It was only a year ago that I purchased my first ever handheld game machine (that being my lovely little DS Lite) and already I am thinking about buying either one of these (when they come out) or a Wiz.

So true. I played some games on my PSP, because they looked so pretty on it, especially with a bit of filtering. All GBA games look great with their vivid colour palette, Silmarils' classics didn't scare with huge pixels, instead becoming small pieces of art, and Final Fantasy VI from SNES was just brilliant.

I guess the same applies to Wiz with an added bonus of being able to play Amiga games (seriously, I am somewhat jealous about it!).

Neo Geo games are, in general, a thing of absolute undeniable beauty as it is, so I can hardly dispute this. I am interested, is there a list anywhere of games one can play on the Wiz? I hear that it is quite good at emulation, but exactly how many games one can play on it after purchasing it is something I remain quite unsure about.

Well, from what I've tried, all ZX Spectrum, Genesis/Megadrive, SNES and Atari 2600 run brilliantly. Almost 90% percent of Amiga and Neo Geo software runs without any problems whatsoever, and every 320x200 adventure works brilliantly via ScummVM. Haven't tried any PC emulation though.